9 Avengers Fates Worse Than Deaths
2. Becoming A Flesh-Craving Zombie
Marvel Zombies is a hugely popular line of comics where our favourite heroes are infected by a virus which turns them into, well, zombies.
The initial 2005 tale and its subsequent spin-offs make for entertaining, engaging reading, but the reality of these stories is an extremely grim one for the characters involved - and amongst those characters are a who's who of the Avengers.
In fact, the Avengers are amongst the very first heroes to be infected as that initial Marvel Zombies tale opens. Set on Earth-2149, readers saw a unnamed, unknown, infected figure crash-land and almost immediately take a bite out of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men. That's three pretty heavy hitting hero groups right there, and thus the tone was immediately set for this bonkers story.
What makes the shuffling undead hordes of Marvel Zombies particularly standout from your usual zombies, is that the infected still maintain their core personality. Just, y'know, with their thoughts forever clouded by 'the hunger'. As such, there's still a depressing semblance of consciousness to our infected, flesh-craving heroes in this corner of the wider Marvel Multiverse.